SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) A cardiovascular perfusionist plays a crucial role in cardiac surgery, ensuring that a patient’s heart and lungs continue to function during procedures like open-heart surgery. During Surgery : Once the surgery begins, the perfusionist monitors and controls the heart-lung machine.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This portion of the resident’s role is crucial as it ensures the patient is well prepared for a safe surgery. They closely monitor the patient’s vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature and body fluid balance.

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EARN Cares

MARCH 24, 2022

OR nurses can only care for one patient during surgery. Each day, they are assigned to an OR and assist with the surgeries scheduled in that room for the whole day. OR nurses work closely with scrub technologists (also called scrubs or scrub techs) to help surgical teams perform surgery.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

In modern healthcare, perfusion is an essential element in various medical procedures and plays a crucial role in supporting patients during surgeries, especially in cardiac care. The responsibilities of a perfusionist include: Monitoring vital signs such as blood pressure, blood flow, oxygenation, and temperature.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Let’s look at a case study which highlights a specific risk of general anesthesia at a freestanding surgery center or a surgeon’s office operating room, when the anesthesiologist departs soon after the case is finished. The anesthesiologist meets the patient prior to the surgery, reviews the chart, and examines the patient.

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Picis

MAY 13, 2024

Preoperative Communication and Education Before a patient undergoes surgery, effective communication and tailored education play pivotal roles in fostering a patient-centered approach. Informed consent becomes a key element, where patients receive detailed information about the proposed surgery, potential risks, and alternative options.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Anesthesia is not the career for you if you like to sleep late—surgery always begins at 0730 hours). The first surgery today is a procedure devised to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a procedure called a maxillary-mandibular osteotomy. The surgery will take approximately three hours. You’ll be asleep for the entire surgery.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Anesthesiologists are responsible for your medical care before, during, and after surgeries. Today I’ll walk you through an example anesthetic which shows how an anesthesiologist approaches the challenges of a difficult surgical problem: emergency non-cardiac surgery in a patient with heart disease. A will be present the entire time.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

MAY 6, 2024

This can be accomplished using complex algorithms that can take large datasets with patient information and analyze them for prognostic outcomes, in conjunction with patient information provided through health apps that monitor metrics such as food intake, vital signs, physical activity etc 3.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 18, 2021

You’re a patient scheduled for elective surgery tomorrow. You’re nervous and you’d like to drink a glass of wine (or two) at dinner the night before the surgery. Surgery is common in the United States—there were more than 17 million surgeries performed in America in 2014. Is this OK? cannabis REF) are present.

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 20, 2024

Intraoperative monitoring (IOM) plays a crucial role in modern surgery by enhancing patient safety and improving surgical outcomes. In this blog, we will explore the importance of intraoperative monitoring, its benefits, and answer some frequently asked questions about this vital medical practice. What is Intraoperative Monitoring?

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Radius Anesthesia

MAY 17, 2023

Cancer treatment, including surgery , chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, results in major physiological and health changes. In particular, there are unique considerations for patients undergoing cancer treatment, especially radiation therapy, who need anesthesia. Some cancer patients require surgery as part of treatment.

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Picis

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

These should: Cover various types of surgeries, procedures and anesthesia techniques Include preoperative assessments, intraoperative events, drug administration, vital signs, fluid balance and postoperative recovery data Enable easy capture, storage and retrieval of relevant patient information 3.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When a Code Blue or a dire change in vital signs occurs in an operating room, the Manual directs the resuscitation team to the correct order of action at a time when minds are racing, thoughts have become jumbled, and near-perfect intervention is required. The patient is stabilized and eventually survives without any adverse outcome.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vital signs was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing. These devices enable an anesthesiologist to remain connected to the outside world during surgery. You’re allowed to bring along a briefcase or a backpack.

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EARN Cares

AUGUST 8, 2022

Urgent care is also included within ambulatory nursing and the skills required for this position are much different than the skills required for other ambulatory settings, such as a telehealth agency or an outpatient surgery center, for example.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 18, 2019

Will future anesthesiologists routinely use caffeine to wake patients after surgery? Intravenous caffeine post-surgery is not a new idea. There were no vital signs differences between the groups treated with caffeine or placebo in either rat experiment. 1 A cup of coffee contains from 80 to 120 mg of caffeine.A

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 23, 2023

” Despite this, during surgery your anesthesiologist injected fentanyl into your IV as part of your anesthetic. Most surgeries cause pain, and our pharmaceutical options for relieving pain include local anesthetics, anesthesia gases, or narcotics. Is that safe? Why do anesthesiologists utilize fentanyl?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 15, 2022

Dr. Long performed multiple surgeries using this technique, but did not publish his findings until seven years later in 1849 in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. The invention of ether changed medical care forever, making painless surgery a reality. He performed the first surgery under spinal anesthesia in 1899.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Your patient is in mid-surgery, and you receive a call from the Anesthesia Control Tower that the patient’s blood pressure is too low, your blood transfusion replacement is inadequate, and that the patient is in danger. A press article describing the ACT states: “Surgery is a big insult to the human body. A lot can go wrong.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Because the spaceship is more than 200 days away from Earth, the physicians instruct the crew to proceed with surgery and anesthesia in outer space. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? Is an anesthesiologist required on board? The domes are held in that shape because of surface tension.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 26, 2018

Even though the patient was brain dead, it was imperative to maintain his or her vital signs and oxygenation at optimal levels to preserve the cardiac function for the eventual recipient. We’d arrive in the operating room—a room we’d never seen or worked in before—and prepare the patient for surgery. At this point my work began.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Inexperienced anesthesiologists may only contemplate a recipe of anesthesia drugs, instead of seeing his or her role as the management of the patient’s medical problems prior to, during, and after surgery. in the context of what the surgery and the anesthetic medications do to these diseases. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 3, 2017

Many patients require preoperative clearance prior to surgery, especially patients with significant medical problems or at extremes of age. Some health care systems run preoperative anesthesia clinics, where anesthesia professionals evaluate these patients prior to surgery. The surgery is delayed pending the cardiologist assessment.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 13, 2021

A 12-year-old boy and his mother walk into a surgery center. All vital signs were normal. No parent wants their neonate, infant, child, or adolescent to have a risk of sudden cardiac arrest under general anesthesia for a common elective surgery. The child is scheduled for a tonsillectomy, and is otherwise healthy.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 27, 2017

Then he injects her IV with a syringe of adrenaline, and leaves the vital signs monitor on. The vital signs monitor shows her heart rate suddenly change to zero as she dies. The vital signs monitor continues to emit a soft high-pitched tone, but there’s no one else around to hear it.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

What sort of preoperative tests or therapies should this patient have before surgery? CHATGPT: For an 80-year-old woman with congestive heart failure (CHF) who needs to undergo gallbladder removal surgery, it is essential to conduct a thorough preoperative evaluation to assess her overall health status and identify any potential risks.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 29, 2015

In addition to monitoring the patient’s EEG level of consciousness (via a BIS monitor device called NeuroSENSE), this new device monitors traditional vital signs such as blood oxygen levels, heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure, to determine how much anesthesia to deliver. The device had been used on 250 patients so far.

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Triage Staffing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Along with performing all the duties required of an RN—like monitoring vital signs and administering medication—hospice nurses offer patients emotional, psychosocial, and even spiritual support. An L&D nurse makes an average hourly wage of $33.93 , which comes out to about $70,500 a year.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No one monitored the vital signs of the boys during their 3-hour underwater general anesthetics. Luckily the ketamine anesthesia as administered must have kept all the vital signs within acceptable limits. Anesthetized patients have no muscle movement and are unable to generate any body heat in the cold water.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

If something dire goes wrong during anesthesia and surgery and the flow of oxygen to the brain is cut off, an anesthesia practitioner has about five minutes to diagnose the cause of the problem and treat it. A 40-year-old male presented for outpatient septoplasty surgery. His preoperative vital signs were normal.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2020

What you would need is an intensive care bed with a ventilator, equipment to support your vital signs, and doctors and nurses to care for you 24 hours around the clock. 12 Important Things to Know as You Near the End of Your Anesthesia Training Should You Cancel Surgery For a Blood Pressure = 178/108?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After a surgery is finished, anesthetic gases and intravenous anesthesia drugs are discontinued, and the patient wakes up within 5 to 15 minutes. The surgery concluded 2 hours later and the anesthetics were discontinued. An 80-year-old female presented for elective right elbow surgery. Five minutes later she opened her eyes.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 4, 2021

His vital signs are normal, and his oxygen saturation is 96% on room air.You are six months out of anesthesia training and new to this hospital. You bring the patient into the endoscopy suite, attach the standard vital signs monitors, and administer oxygen via a Procedural Oxygen Mask (POM, made by Mercury Medical).

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

For healthy patients undergoing elective surgery the anesthetic risks are minimal, and are similar to the risks of driving on a freeway in an automobile. Because of manpower necessities, there will never be a law mandating a second anesthesiologist for every surgery as there is in commercial aviation. The degree of risk is variable.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

You’re wrong to cancel his surgery.” Tell the surgeon that the patient needs to have cardiac clearance prior to any general anesthetic, and that the case needs to be done in a hospital setting rather than at a freestanding surgery center. The surgeon told the patient to expect “a twilight sleep during the surgery.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This device monitors the patient’s EEG level of consciousness via a BIS monitor device as well as traditional vital signs. One of the machine’s developers, Mark Ansermino MD stated, “We are convinced the machine can do better than human anesthesiologists.” IBM Watson AI Robot 2.

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